General ⇒ Problem with Beamer : blank pdf

[Laskend]

Hi !

I am a very beginner in LaTeX.
I work with MiKTeX and TeXniKcenter. I can compile and create a pdf document when documentclass is "article". But when the documentclass is beamer, I have some problems with :
Latex => dvi : I can view the document but a window opens with "MiXTeK Problem Report : Some PostScript specials could not be rendered."
Latex => dvi => pdf : The pdf has the good number of slides, but they are blank, or sometimes there is in a corner a few of the text that should be written... And that is very annoying...
NB : I have installed the needed packages (beamer, pgf, xcolor and others...)
Here is one of the beamer code -which creates a blank pdf.

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\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\usetheme{Warsaw}


\begin{document}

    \begin{frame}
    Voici votre première page de présentation en LaTeX !
    \end{frame}

\end{document}

Thank you for help !

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Laskend,

welcome to the forum!

The document is not the cause. You could see it if you would click on "Open in writeLaTeX" above the code, here in the forum.

So we need more information about what happens in your case locally. Please post your .log file and the pdf file, as attachment to a forum post.

Stefan

[Laskend]

Thank you !

A friend helped me to solve the problem, thanks to this link :http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/183815
I could view without problem with yap

And for the pdf, the problem actualy happens only when I compile Latex=>dvi=>pdf , but the beamer document appears correctly when I compile with Latex=>pdf directly.
That's quite strange but I can encode and see the result now, it's ok for me.

Thank you for the speed you answered me ! (and sorry for my English...)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Thank you for the information! Nice to read, that the problem is solved now.
pdfLaTeX actually has some benefits over the DVI way, so I prefer it anyway.

Stefan